Man sentenced to time served in meth case

Attorneys: Johnathan Patton's participation with meth was brief, but cost him a year in jail

1:53 AM,
Mar. 11, 2014

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A Selma man on Monday learned what the cost of his relatively brief dealings with methamphetamine would be.

Johnathan Daniel Patton, 33 - who had earlier pleaded guilty to possession of meth and possession of precursors - was sentenced to 355 days of incarceration, which he had served since he was arrested in a March 21, 2013, police raid at a Muncie home.

Public defender Mark McKinney said Patton's "exposure and involvement" with meth producers and users was "very brief, a couple of weeks." ...